Timeline for Unanswered questions - what to do?
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| Jul 1, 2014 at 10:00 | history | edited | Lynob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 0:00 | vote | accept | Wilf | ||
| Feb 12, 2014 at 23:00 | comment | added | Wilf | I know - I used it for a while, but the reason I found it non-pratical because I kept entering 'Dependency Hell' | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | Lynob | @Wilf you're right slackware is harder than arch, well the full install makes it easy to install a graphical interface but on arch you could use yaourt or packman and it will install all the dependencies, but on slackware you have to install the dependencies yourself, that's sick :) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:39 | comment | added | Lynob | @wilf I misunderstood the question then :) and thanks for stackware, it's my favorite hobby to keep trying different OS, I don't remember that I installed a distro for longer than 6 month, I get bored, try another :) the installer is not strange to me, command line installer, i had to install manjaro that way a month ago, I'll try stackware tomorrow or Thursday :) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | Wilf | @Fischer - oh and it probably wasn't Chinese - it refers to Sky, which in mainly available in the UK (where I am)- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_%28disambiguation%29 - also the locale is en_GB (English, Great Britain - yes, still get some big headed people here...) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:09 | comment | added | Wilf |
Sorry, I did reject the edit, I was going to look at it later... (innocent whistling noise... might of forgotten about it a tiny bit) - note the OP's profile page says: A wanna be Lubuntu user - keen to learn new things
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| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:07 | comment | added | Lynob | @JorgeCastro that's a problem too, yesterday, i had to edit a chinese question askubuntu.com/questions/397626/… but my edit wasn't accepted :) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | Wilf | The installer looks like this... Easy enoguht when you get your head around it, but not practical for most purposes... | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | Lynob | @wilf challenge accepted :) i was thinking to try freebsd but you just changed my mind :) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | I don't think it's inevitable, new user questions are easy to answer, it's horribly written questions that are hard to answer. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:46 | comment | added | Wilf | Ach.. Ubuntu is flipping easy to use - try using SlackWare :) | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:35 | comment | added | Lynob | @JorgeCastro of course, i said this in my answer, it's inevitable, because the users think of ubuntu it as "a newbie introduction to linux", isn't that the slogan of ubuntu? i've had this discussion here in the comment section askubuntu.com/questions/417727/… now what is the slogan of arch users? "if you're not prepare to fix it yourself use ubuntu" i've been an arch user, i know :D | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:27 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | We're not any "softer" here than any other SE afaict; we just have more people asking questions than reviewing by a large margin. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:25 | comment | added | Lynob | @JorgeCastro well but featuring this site on ubuntu didn't help solving the problem, just spend 1 week on arch forum, see how effective their plan is! closing everything will solve it, the electronics.SE site is pretty damn good at doing it :) but here you must be softer, because you're featured on ubuntu, it's like ubuntu.com saying "I expect from askubuntu to solve every issue our users have", at least that's how i see it | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 14:08 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | We've had unanswered question problems long before the site was featured on ubuntu.com. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | Flyk | @Fischer exactly my point. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | Lynob | @kalina who am I to make a statement on his behalf? I'm nobody, I was saying what I believe to be true, not the absolute truth, anyway, I edited that line and removed the word "truth" from it | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 13:18 | history | edited | Lynob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2014 at 13:08 | comment | added | Flyk | @Fischer since he hasn't made a public statement to that effect, it's not really right for you to make it on his behalf. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 11:52 | comment | added | Lynob | @kalina i was active on many small forums, i was the only guy answering and just left, do you have a blog? if you do have a blog and not too many comments and followers you'll feel the same, there will be a day you'd say, screw this blog, it's fun and all, but i have to do something else than typing, I'll keep my ideas to myself and go have some fun | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 11:49 | comment | added | Lynob | @kalina he's not rude to say that, if i was him i wouldn't say it either, the truth cannot always be told kalina... let me tell you this, there is a stupid Q&A site called yahoo answer, just a silly site that i liked, i had more points than you there, about 5k (much harder to get points there coz people cant vote you up, I spent years) and i was very excited about helping people in programming section, if you go there now, what do you see? low quality questions, duplicates, stupid questions, i just left, this is a personal experience | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 9:09 | comment | added | Flyk |
Jeff left SE because it's not challenging anymore, this is the truth citation needed
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| Feb 11, 2014 at 3:45 | comment | added | Seth | Hmm.. hiring more Skeets and Castros. That sounds like a solution. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 3:24 | comment | added | Paul Tanzini | I don't think new users is the problem really. Sure, they leave out information, but you can get them to answer usually. Also, I flag it as duplicate if the answer is already on Askubuntu. I see many more questions in the new queue that are just beyond my ability to answer, and I would consider myself an experienced user with college level knowledge of Linux. | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 0:54 | comment | added | TrailRider | +1, "And if you get stuck Askubuntu!" I think you are correct, this has a lot to do with new user and them asking duplicate questions. It's great that Canonical sends users here so that they can get help and not give up on Ubuntu and great that we help them do just that. However it is a double edged sword, new users may be less likely to search for duplicates before posting their question and are almost certainly less likely to know if a particular answer could help them if the issue is the same but is not verbatim to their issue. =duplicate questions=lower answer rate.... | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 23:51 | history | edited | Lynob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 23:37 | history | edited | Lynob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2014 at 23:29 | history | answered | Lynob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
